The apartment plot [[electronic resource] ] : urban living in American film and popular culture, 1945 to 1975 / / Pamela Robertson Wojcik

• Autore: Wojcik Pamela Robertson <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Durham [NC], : Duke University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/658209732
• Soggetto topico: City and town life in motion pictures; Apartments in motion pictures; Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based on print version record
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: a philosophy of urbanism -- A primer in urbanism : Rear Window's archetypal apartment plot -- "We like our apartment" : the playboy indoors -- The great reprieve : modernity, femininity, and the apartment -- The suburbs in the city : the housewife and the apartment -- Movin' on up : the African american apartment.
• Sommario/riassunto: Rethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre, one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device.
• Titolo autorizzato: The apartment plot
• ISBN: 1-283-25181-7; 0-8223-9298-4; 9786613251817
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910433257803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.